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Northrop Frye:- Archetypal criticiam

Name:- Rayjada Mitalba J.                      Paper:- Literary Criticism
Enrollment No:-2069108420190040.    Roll No:- 20
Submitted to:-  S.B.Gardi Department of English, Maharaja krushnkumarsinhji University, Bhavnagar.



    Northrop frye: -ArchetypeCriticism

What is Archetypal? :-

"Arche" means 'old' or original and "type" means "frorm" together it means "original form".
Archetypal criticism :-
Refers to the universal symbols, theme, character and images we find repeated in literature.
According to Watson and dacherme:-
'Archetypal criticism is a recurrent, universal pattern or motif holding the same or similar meaning and significance for all individuals in every age and in every part of the world.'
Archetypes:- where does this idea come from Archetypes were first suggested by Carl Jung, pronounced "Yong".
Thus archetypal criticism increases both the satisfaction in reading the work of art and the knowledge of a literary piece. We are able to see that an idea image, character, setting or theme in a film or literature. And it is also seen in past and present culture. Archetypal criticism looks for a kind of pattern into terts and traces. Them through works of classical literature into rodern texts. This way they interprets those repetitions as symbol's or manifestations of universal human conflicts.
Carl Jung:- suggested "Archetypes" for the first time in criticism he was psychologist who applied the term archetype to the "premordial Images" that spring from our common human experience. He suggested that we all share a "collective consciousness" in which all of the history of human experience is contained and to which we all have access through our subconscious minds.
Archetypes can be categorised as:-
Conflicts, Characters, Situations, Themes, Myths, Symbols.
Conflicts:- Young v/s Old.                   Rich v/s poor.
                   Strong v/s Weak.               Dreams v/s Reality.
Character:- Innocent Youth, Bully, Hero, Every man, Devil, Dreamer, Scapegoat, out Cast, Magician Shrew, Warrior, Dragon Slayer, Out Sider.
Situation:- Coming of Age, Dying, Being Reborn, Being Tempted, Quest, Falling From a high  position, Making a sacrifice.
Myths :- Adam and Eve, Faust and Mephistopheles, Sampson and Delilan.
Symbol's:- Water, Sea, Garden, Sun, Colours, Flowers, Rain, Fire, Flooding, Animals.
Northrop Frye:-
Northrop Frye was also an outstanding archetype, critic. He suggested that literary archetypes can be classified by genrese seem to correspond to the seasons of the year and the life cycle of human being.
According to Northrop Frye all narrative fall into one of four Mythos each myth has six phases, sharing three with the preceding myths and three with the succeeding Myths. Thus, comedy is compared to spring , Romance with Summer, Thegedy with Autum and Satire with Winter.
The context of genre determines how a symbol or Image is to be interested human, animal, vegetation, mineral and water.
Human:- The human world of comedy is representative of wish - fulfilment and being community centred. Where as tragic human world is of isolation, tyranny and the falling of hero.
Animals:-  In the comic genres are docile and pastoral example:- sheep . Were as animals in tragic genre are predatory and hunters example wolves.
Vegetation:- In comedy, vegetation is represented as gardens, flowers, fruits etc. And in tragedy vegetation is represented as wild forest or as barren.
Mineral:- In comedy , mineral is represented as cities, temples, or stones and in tragedy mineral is represented as deser, ruins etc.
Water:- In comedy water is represented as rivers where as in tragedy water is represented as floods, sea etc.
The hero: - The courageous figure, the one who's always running in and saving the day. Example: Dartagnon from Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers". (Hamlet, Macbeth, Tom Jones)

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